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"Believing" in evolution has nothing to do with being atheist or not. The majority of educated clergymen believe it. Anyone who doubts evolution should really check out this link:
...It is a short letter which explains the church's official position on the matter. It makes some excellent points, the best is that denying evolution is willful ignorance and not what God could possibly want you to do:
(The following is a reprint of the text of the letter from the link above, I am not the author):
"Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible – the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark – convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.
We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children.We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth."
That's actually a really well-worded letter. I applaud those clergy who are intelligent enough to realize that evolution is fact and that their bible is inspirational rather than literal.
As I've said before, it would be better if all believers would accept evolution while still hanging on to their beliefs in God and Jesus.
Evolution doesn't even address the issue of whether there is or isn't a God. Did somebody not ever tell them that? I guess not.
Given that none on these forums seem to even know what a theory or evolution itself is, I don't think they realize just how dumb they look when they hit us up with their "truth" websites. Just stop embarrassing yourselves already.
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